venues from Casablanca to Newfoundland. These conferences are designed not only to examine significant historical events of the Roosevelt era but to address those events in the context of contemporary issues. Participants include diplomats, government officials, policy makers, statesmen, and the general public as well as historians. Commemorative events are often associated with the conferences, intensifying the participants’ sense of the meaning of the historical issues being discussed. The range of people and perspectives and the combination of historical analysis and commemorative activities have been extraordinarily successful and the conferences have received high praise from participants. FERI often produces publications from these conferences, many of them published in cooperation with St. Martin’s Press as part of FERI’s series on Diplomatic and Economic History.

Some of the conferences FERI has sponsored include "The International Second Quebec Conference: A 50th Anniversary Commemoration," held in Quebec in October 1994; "FDR and the Future of Liberalism," which dealt, in 1989, with issues that would shape Clinton’s election and presidency; "FDR As Seen by His Contemporaries," whose speakers included Valentin Berezhkov, Stalin’s interpreter at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences; "Jean Monnet and the Americans"; "Casablanca Revisited," a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the wartime meeting among Churchill, FDR, and de Gaulle; and a conference at the FDR Library in the fall of 1998 on "FDR, the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church in America."

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